Staff

Danni Askini (they/she)
Executive Director of National Programs
Danni@GenderJusticeLeague.org · Schedule with me on Calendly

Danni has served for over 20 years as an activist, policy expert, and organizer in two-spirit, trans and LGBQIA+ communities across the United States and Europe. As our founding Executive Director, Danni helped lead Gender Justice League in expanding access to transition-related healthcare, banning conversion therapy throughout Washington, defeating 6 anti-trans legislative bills, crushing 2 anti-trans ballot measures, launching our mutual-aid project to support survivors of gender-based violence, and successfully producing 7 Trans Pride events in Seattle. In 2018, after being targeted by the Trump Administration, Danni was forced to seek asylum in Sweden, having been denied a passport to return home. Upon returning in 2020, after settling her case through the UN Human Rights Council, Danni relocated to Washington DC to work as a Senior Health Policy Analyst supporting the passage of the HEROES and CARES Acts through Congress. Danni is now based primarily in Washington, DC and splits her time in Seattle where she has deep roots. 

Ganesha Gold Buffalo (she/her)
Program Director
Ganesha@GenderJusticeLeague.org · Schedule with me on Calendy

Ganesha is a Disabled, Afroindigenous community healer and matriarch, militant anti-imperialist, educator, national organizer, and multidisciplinary performance artist of 11 years—hailing from Tennessee, currently residing in Florida, and operating out of Seattle. She centers radical care and hospitality in everything that she does from the stage, studio, classroom, street, and conference room. Ganesha’s drive stems from an ancestral calling to ignite the people with a hunger for reintegration from displacement and ethnocide, abolition of all colonial and neocolonial systems and systemic abuses, sex worker advocacy, food and land sovereignty, environmental justice, youth protections, by-and-for community security initiatives, and equitable resource building and redistribution via ceremony and ancestral communion.

Kai Aprill-Tomlin, MSW (he/him)
Communications & Membership Development Manager
Kai@GenderJusticeLeague.org 

Kai is a social worker, abolitionist, and artist based in Seattle. Kai brings 10+ years of experience working directly in community on issues related to housing & houselessness and queer & trans justice, in addition to systems-level change-making. He is especially passionate about anti-racist action, community-centered design, and housing first and harm reduction principles. In his free time, Kai enjoys supporting the local drag and ballroom scenes, paddle boarding, and making art of all kinds.

Board of Directors

Sarah Moran (she/her)
Board President
SarahMo@GenderJusticeLeague.org 

Bio coming soon!

Sam Mark (she/her)
Board Treasurer

Sam was born and raised in Southern California where she still resides. She has a background in Food & Retail Management and Financial Services. She dedicates much of her time to humanitarian efforts after some harsh realizations of the oppression and dysfunctions that our society has been built upon. She received an online Certification for Leading Diverse Teams & Orgs in 2022 and became a Certified Tarot Advisor & Healer that same year.

You may recognize Sam and her partner, Aussie, from Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love. They continue to use their platforms to advocate for their 2SLGBTQIA+ & AAPI communities; Sustainability & Environmental Justice; Disability Justice; and destigmatizing & decolonizing Mental Health, Spiritual Entrepreneurship, and more. Sam is the Founder of The Conscious Altruism Movement – a space for building connections and fostering allyship by amplifying diverse voices and creating space for vulnerable dialogue and conscious reflection. She is excited to continue supporting and uplifting amazing organizations like Gender Justice League!

Zane Rapiñan (they/he)
Board Secretary

Seattle born and raised. GSBA + Pride Foundation Scholar. Math and science tutor.

Identifies as: nonbinary. trans. queer. mixed-race filipinx. punk. gaymer. nerd.

Queer + trans activist on college campus and in workplaces. Lover of media, animals, history, politics, and resource sharing. Far left, prison abolitionist, supportive of reparations and decriminalizing SW, and lobbying for UBI. In solidarity with the movement for black and indigenous self determination and liberation, and determined to move against all oppression.

Blaire Sebren (they/them)
Board Member

Bio coming soon!

Oliver Webb (he/him)
Board Member

Oliver was born in Washington and spent most of his life here, with the exception of a few years spent in other West coast states as a child during the school years (summers spent in Washington). He worked with at-risk youth and adults, as well as formerly houseless individuals, in residential counseling before sustaining a permanent workplace injury that ended his career. He has spent nearly three decades in activism and volunteering, much of that spent in Seattle’s Queer community.

Oliver has been part of Trans Pride Seattle since 2017 and is the current Operations Director: overseeing security, medical, and accessibility. He is also head of security for various other prides and events throughout the region. He advocates for gender, accessibility, and housing needs for individuals regularly for the community, and is the Executive Director of Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound.

Oliver recently moved to be closer to his partner and slow things down a bit as he looks toward their future together.

Lenny Kay (he/him)
Board Member

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Delphine Brody (she/her)
Board Member

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Gabriel L. (he/him)
Board Member

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Galaxy Marshall (he/him or she/her)
Board Member

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